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Utopian tranquility
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Easter IslandProcessed, leveled, cropped MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking ENE (78°) from RMC 88.0206
Sol 1852, LMST: 11:59:16
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01852/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1852_0831348931_818EBY_N0880206ZCAM04370_1100LMJ01.png -
Utopian tranquility
Alt. title:
Easter IslandProcessed, leveled, cropped MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking ENE (78°) from RMC 88.0206
Sol 1852, LMST: 11:59:16
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01852/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1852_0831348931_818EBY_N0880206ZCAM04370_1100LMJ01.png -
Utopian tranquility
Alt. title:
Easter IslandProcessed, leveled, cropped MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking ENE (78°) from RMC 88.0206
Sol 1852, LMST: 11:59:16
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01852/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1852_0831348931_818EBY_N0880206ZCAM04370_1100LMJ01.png -
Utopian tranquility
Alt. title:
Easter IslandProcessed, leveled, cropped MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking ENE (78°) from RMC 88.0206
Sol 1852, LMST: 11:59:16
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01852/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1852_0831348931_818EBY_N0880206ZCAM04370_1100LMJ01.png -
Utopian tranquility
Alt. title:
Easter IslandProcessed, leveled, cropped MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking ENE (78°) from RMC 88.0206
Sol 1852, LMST: 11:59:16
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01852/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1852_0831348931_818EBY_N0880206ZCAM04370_1100LMJ01.png -
Series two lesson two of Free Association's improv course is about a thing they call "grounding".
For a scene to be believable, it must be grounded in reality (or in a fantastical scene at least grounded in an emotional truth).
Improvisors can often jump quickly to the bizarre or the outlandish to try and get a laugh, but especially in early in scenes the audience needs to first know who these people are and what is going on and why they should care about any of it.
Three hours of scenes deliberately drilling practice of to have nothing strange or out of context happening, scenes in which everything goes according to expectation and nobody tries to be funny.
A useful skill to drill perhaps, but you can see why Free Association get a reputation for being too serious and not laughing enough.
Three hours of scenes where mostly nothing happens might be the most dull improv evening I've had.
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Footprint of a Martian monster
#freeAssociation 🙃 😄
Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking ESE (106°) from RMC 79.0488
Sol 1629, LMST: 12:12:53Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
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🧵 2/2
tl;dr #neurodivergent #freeassociation #musingsCombining proof-reading with textual markup and manual entity recognition, it becomes the perfect hyper focus activity.
I use #Transkribus for my #HTR and for the last few days, I have been unlucky with the traffic for both model training and text recognition. The queues are long and take a lot of time and I am deprived of my error hunting and current hyper fixation on #Mongolia #BogdKhanate #EasternChina #TravelDiaries #TEI #Encoding -
🧵 1/2
tl;dr #neurodivergent #freeassociation #musingsSome work days are fragmented due to meetings or co-working sessions or the nature of the tasks at hand. I don't do well with having my routines and sequences disrupted, and on such days, I will seek activities which have a calming effect and are enjoyable. Proof-reading HTR-results is such an activity: it's monotonous, requires a certain focus and attention to detail while it provides immediate gratification for every error I find and fix.
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I would roll, if someone kicked me… 🥴
Processed, leveled, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking N (4°) from RMC 69.2000
Sol 1434, LMST: 12:45:09Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
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World brain, world system
https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/11/resources/show-notes/the-un-the-rockefellers-digital-control-with-jacob-nordangard/
https://jacobnordangard.se/en/books-1.html
cf. totalizing psy-temporal system
https://archive.org/details/hesseludi#WorldBrain Symlink #Automation
#Hegemony #FreeAssociation #Will
#Rockefeller #SystemsTheory #NWO
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The end of an ancient pavement on Mars 😀 🙃 (not really)
https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-4323-4324-surfin-our-way-out-of-the-channel/
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Gigantic sand slug
Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 63mm
looking SSE (160°) from RMC 56.5250
Sol 1248, LMST: 13:28:00Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise
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Waiting for a Martian octopus to make a cameo on that spongy rock? 🙃
Animation
#FreeAssociationProcessed, rotated, cropped SHERLOC_WATSON
looking down (-67°) from RMC 56.3438
Sol 1233, LMST: 15:24:14Originals:
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01233/ids/edr/browse/shrlc/SIF_1233_0776410152_808EBY_N0563438SRLC00696_0000LMJ01.png
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01233/ids/edr/browse/shrlc/SIF_1233_0776410323_792EBY_N0563438SRLC00696_0000LMJ01.pngCredit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/65dBnoise
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The trunk of a fallen Martian coconut tree (upper left), and a coconut slashed with a machete (lower right).
"You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?"
Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking SSW (202°) from RMC 56.1010
Sol 1221, LMST: 13:44:02Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01221/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1221_0775338632_582EBY_N0561010ZCAM09268_1100LMJ01.png
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Did Mars have its own Vasa ship at the bottom of the Neretva river? 🙃
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_Museum
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✏️ sketched yesterday with klaus…
i used my handwriting font & scratch brushes to digitize it…🗝️
#Politics #PoliticalCartoon #CapitalismKills #Wealth #Government #FreeSpeech #FreeAssociation #Autonomy #BodyAutonomy #Surveillance #Privacy #DataMining #Capitalism #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Antifa #QueerArt #MastoArt #Art #ArtistsOnMastodon #Illustration #Cartoon #ACAB #PoliceState #NoCopCity #SupremeCourt #MentalHealthMetaphor
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Either the extruder had a problem or the cooling fan didn't work. 🙃 🤪
Processed, cropped MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking from RMC 53.0000
Sol 1176, LMST: 12:51:21Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01176/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1176_0771340531_206EBY_N0530000ZCAM09214_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise -
A rock's attempt to smile for the camera 🙃
#FreeAssociation #Anthropomorphizing
Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking W (270°) from RMC 52.2750
Sol 1157, LMST: 11:49:37Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01157/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1157_0769650033_598EBY_N0522750ZCAM03906_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise -
How Student Protesters Will Save Democracy (They've Done It Before)
#AcademicFreedom #RealFreeSpeech #FreeAssociation #CivilDisobediance #CeaseFireNow
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Grave of the Fallen Meteorite
(rather, a cenotaph)Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking WSW (256°) from RMC 52.1700
Sol 1144, LMST: 11:43:51Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01144/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1144_0768495621_473EBY_N0521700ZCAM09175_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise -
Cinnamon rocks
Processed, leveled, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 63mm
looking SSW (204°) from RMC 52.0870
Sol 1139, LMST: 12:47:06Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01139/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1139_0768055635_519EBY_N0520870ZCAM09168_0630LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise -
Ambushing the tyrant
(Αρμόδιος, Αριστογείτων and their gang at the foot of Acropolis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmodius_and_Aristogeiton)
Variations on a theme
#FreeAssociationProcessed MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 63mm
looking S (187°) from RMC 52.0870
Sol 1139, LMST: 12:48:05Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01139/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1139_0768055692_519EBY_N0520870ZCAM09168_0630LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise -
From letter: “We welcome the sturdy #HumanRights framework upon which you have built the GDC. Strong, ubiquitous #encryption protects human rights, especially the right to #privacy, as well as #FreeExpression, #FreeAssociation, & access to information.”
https://cdt.org/insights/cdts-mallory-knodel-reads-gec-sc-statement-at-un-on-the-secretary-generals-global-digital-compact/ -
Some critiques of horizontality/non-hierarchy are basically: "horizontality/non-hierarchy+ABC bad things or minus XYZ good things = some less than good/effective thing." But that's an issue of the absence of XYZ good things / the presence of ABC bad things-- not horizontality
The same could be said of many critiques of direct democracy (direct collective decision making). Direct democracy+ABC bad things or minus XYZ good things is unsurprisingly not as ethical/effective as Direct democracy + XYZ good things and minus ABC bad things.
It is when there is a gestalt of multiple liberatory processes/practices/goals that various necessary but insufficient features for liberatory organizing can meaningfully thrive and mutually qualify each other.
https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/gestalt-of-the-good-2023-remix/
#anarchism #anarchy #communism #communalism #libertariancommunism #libertariansocialism #democracy #directdemocracy #selfmanagement #mutualaid #directaction #nonhierarchy #antihierarchy #horizontalism #horizontality #freeassociation #socialecology #ethics #normativeethics #metaethics
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Some critiques of horizontality/non-hierarchy are basically: "horizontality/non-hierarchy+ABC bad things or minus XYZ good things = some less than good/effective thing." But that's an issue of the absence of XYZ good things / the presence of ABC bad things-- not horizontality
The same could be said of many critiques of direct democracy (direct collective decision making). Direct democracy+ABC bad things or minus XYZ good things is unsurprisingly not as ethical/effective as Direct democracy + XYZ good things and minus ABC bad things.
It is when there is a gestalt of multiple liberatory processes/practices/goals that various necessary but insufficient features for liberatory organizing can meaningfully thrive and mutually qualify each other.
https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/gestalt-of-the-good-2023-remix/
#anarchism #anarchy #communism #communalism #libertariancommunism #libertariansocialism #democracy #directdemocracy #selfmanagement #mutualaid #directaction #nonhierarchy #antihierarchy #horizontalism #horizontality #freeassociation #socialecology #ethics #normativeethics #metaethics
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Some critiques of horizontality/non-hierarchy are basically: "horizontality/non-hierarchy+ABC bad things or minus XYZ good things = some less than good/effective thing." But that's an issue of the absence of XYZ good things / the presence of ABC bad things-- not horizontality
The same could be said of many critiques of direct democracy (direct collective decision making). Direct democracy+ABC bad things or minus XYZ good things is unsurprisingly not as ethical/effective as Direct democracy + XYZ good things and minus ABC bad things.
It is when there is a gestalt of multiple liberatory processes/practices/goals that various necessary but insufficient features for liberatory organizing can meaningfully thrive and mutually qualify each other.
https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/gestalt-of-the-good-2023-remix/
#anarchism #anarchy #communism #communalism #libertariancommunism #libertariansocialism #democracy #directdemocracy #selfmanagement #mutualaid #directaction #nonhierarchy #antihierarchy #horizontalism #horizontality #freeassociation #socialecology #ethics #normativeethics #metaethics
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Some critiques of horizontality/non-hierarchy are basically: "horizontality/non-hierarchy+ABC bad things or minus XYZ good things = some less than good/effective thing." But that's an issue of the absence of XYZ good things / the presence of ABC bad things-- not horizontality
The same could be said of many critiques of direct democracy (direct collective decision making). Direct democracy+ABC bad things or minus XYZ good things is unsurprisingly not as ethical/effective as Direct democracy + XYZ good things and minus ABC bad things.
It is when there is a gestalt of multiple liberatory processes/practices/goals that various necessary but insufficient features for liberatory organizing can meaningfully thrive and mutually qualify each other.
https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/07/18/gestalt-of-the-good-2023-remix/
#anarchism #anarchy #communism #communalism #libertariancommunism #libertariansocialism #democracy #directdemocracy #selfmanagement #mutualaid #directaction #nonhierarchy #antihierarchy #horizontalism #horizontality #freeassociation #socialecology #ethics #normativeethics #metaethics
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ROFL 🤣
Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking WNW (286°) from RMC 51.3354
Sol 1117, LMST: 11:49:37Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01117/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1117_0766099063_318EBY_N0513354ZCAM09140_1100LMJ01.png
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Turtle emerging from hibernation
#FreeAssociation
(or, allowing your brain to loosen its control on fantasy, a.k.a. pattern matching sans logic, a.k.a. artificial "intelligence", #AI)Processed MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking WNW (283°) from RMC 51.2794
Sol 1112, LMST: 12:28:18Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01112/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1112_0765657576_956EBY_N0512794ZCAM09135_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise -
Coyote, a stowaway on the spaceship Ares that brought the First Hundred to Mars, was a prominent figure of the underground resistance in #KimStanleyRobinson's #MarsTrilogy.
Here we see one of his hideouts, on the other side of the Neretva Vallis riverbank 🙃 🤣
Processed MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking NW (319°) from RMC 51.2390
Sol 1109, LMST: 11:47:39Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01109/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1109_0765388746_706EBY_N0512390ZCAM09130_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise -
Shark or sarcophagus?
Processed, cropped MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking SW (219°) from RMC 51.2578
Sol 1110, LMST: 11:48:11Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01110/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1110_0765477553_660EBY_N0512578ZCAM09132_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise -
Mini Symplegades
Processed, rotated MCZ_RIGHT, FL: 110mm
looking N (351°) from RMC 51.1886
Sol 1105, LMST: 11:53:54Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01105/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZR0_1105_0765034019_894EBY_N0511886ZCAM03884_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise -
Spectators
Processed, cropped MCZ_LEFT, FL: 110mm
looking ESE (103°) from RMC 51.1348
Sol 1102, LMST: 10:58:16Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01102/ids/edr/browse/zcam/ZL0_1102_0764764279_973EBY_N0511348ZCAM09090_1100LMJ01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/65dBnoise -
Our new police abolition essay "Kick the Cops off Your Block" is now available on substack. This essay gives an analysis of the police, many alternatives to the police, and ways to get to a world without hierarchical security forces and what they enforce
https://usufructcollective.substack.com/p/kick-the-cops-off-your-block
#anarchism #police #policeabolition #anarchy #socialism #communism #prison #prisonabolition #abolition #abolitionism #acab #cops #communal #utopia #praxis
#directaction #mutualaid #mediation
#transformativejustice
#restorativejustice #selfdefense #mediation #freeassociation #hierarchy #equality #statecraft #capitalism -
Points of Unity template for shared practices and processes (for social movement groups and popular organizations of various kinds): ***Although descriptively accurate, the above is not formulated to be the best name for practical use in movement context as it is too jargon heavy and wordy. Alternative names: Points of Unity, Group agreements, Shared Agreements, Group Practices, Shared Practices, Group Processes, Shared Processes, etc
Direct-Democracy: Direct democracy refers to direct collective decision making. Direct democracy enables collective dialogue, decisions, and actions to achieve various goals and solve various problems. Deliberation is foundational to a practical direct democracy as it enables questions, amendments, conversations, problems, solution criteria, multiple perspectives, critiques, concerns, alternative possibilities, dissent, and evaluation of pros and cons to round out proposals and decisions made. After deliberation, there is an aim for full agreement. If there is not full agreement, there is further discussion and then a decision is made by majority vote. ***The specifics of direct democracy can be tweaked and even left out of this section and simply included in the bylaws.
Horizontality: Horizontality refers to the presence of self-organization and the absence of hierarchy. Hierarchy refers to institutionalized top-down command obedience relations. Horizontality includes horizontal rights such as freedom from hierarchy, freedom from oppression, freedom from domination, freedom from exploitation, and freedom to participate in self-managed groups and relations. This group strives to be internally horizontal and contribute to horizontal relations. etc. ***can alternatively be called or framed as: non-hierarchy, or egalitarian relations, or opposition to hierarchy. With different groups, different framings and wordings will make more sense. Depending on group and context, it may or may not make sense for a group to give a list of various hierarchies in such a points of unity document.
Free Association and Participatory activity: Free association refers to freedom of and from associations and participatory activity within associations. For there to be free association and participatory activity, persons and groups must have the guaranteed freedoms to choose their activities and associations while respecting and enabling freedoms of others to do the same. All labor, work, and action within this group is to be voluntary and non-coerced. If someone does not like a policy that is made, they can continue to argue for and advocate an alternative proposal, continue to argue one’s point formally and informally, choose to not participate in the implementation of the policy they disagree with while remaining in the group, or choose to leave the association. *** This point can potentially be included in other points of unity without being its own point. Also, it is often implied that a group is such a voluntary association so including this for a group as an explicit point may or may not make sense.
Direct Action: Direct action refers to opposing exploitation, domination and oppression through self-managed action to achieve various goals. Direct action can be contrasted to indirect action of top-down organizing and relying on rulers to solve social problems. Direct action includes a wide array of potential activities and campaigns against specific hierarchical institutions for short term, mid-term, and long-term goals. *** A description giving examples of direct action tactics such as occupations, blockades, strikes, boycotts, etc. is optional. An alternative to the wording to “domination, exploitation, and oppression” can be “unfreedom and injustice” or something sufficiently similar.
Mutual Aid: Mutual aid refers to voluntary multidirectional help to meet needs. Mutual aid can exist within a group, between groups, between groups and persons, between persons etc. Mutual aid enables groups and people to pool abilities, needs, ideas, proposals, actions, infrastructure, resources, tools, etc. together. Mutual aid can include a wide array of potential activities from mutual assistance towards common goals, creating or participating in development of the commons (including communal fields, factories and workshops, social centers, libraries, eco-technology projects, etc), free food distribution, communal childcare, etc. ***Such a list or variation thereof is optional to include.
For groups that collaborate with other groups in various formal and informal ways:
Co-Federalism: Co-federalism refers to ways organizations can freely collaborate for inter-collective coordination, decisions, and actions in a way that enables decision making power to be in the hands of people directly. Delegated persons and councils of collectives can meet up for deliberation and administration. Such delegates and co-federal councils are mandated and recallable to their respective popular assemblies, are merely communicative, administrative, and have no policy making power. All policies are made and ratified by general assemblies directly. ***Alternatively the words federalism, confederalism, intercommunalism, inter-collectivity, egalitarian federation, etc. can be used in place of co-federalism. Co-federalism is a neologism, and confederalism and federalism both have connotative issues despite them referring to an essential practice for horizontal and free inter-organizational relations.
Addendum point for Community assembly groups in particular:
Communal Self Management: Communal self-management refers to horizontal, democratic, participatory community politics and economics. Such communal and intercommunal self-management can exist on every scale from the block, to the neighborhood, to the city, and beyond. Means of existence and production needed by communities are to be held and managed in common. Policies and protocols for communal economics are managed by communal assemblies and co-federations thereof. Such communal assemblies and co-federations thereof have embedded participatory councils that self-manage implementation within the bounds of their respective mandates and protocols. Such a communal economy aims towards providing each and all with free access to needs.
***The above point is specifically for community assembly groups. It generally makes the most sense for groups that are at relatively a mature level development to the point where they have sufficient power, means of production, and popular support.
Alternative framing that synthesizes the first three points of unity into a single point:
Participatory Democracy: Participatory democracy refers to a combination of direct collective decision making, without rulers, where people freely participate in decision making and implementation of decisions. ***By condensing the substance of the first three points into a single point, a lot of clutter disappears. From here, people can fill out this point through their own descriptions or through copying, pasting, and blending some of the more essential sentences from the first three points of unity listed as needed. An alternative framing for this point could be “self-management” in such a way that includes the substance of direct democracy, horizontality, and free association. As coherent as the first three points are as separate points rounding each other out, they are rather cumbersome and can be difficult to wrap one’s mind around. Creating a single point that combines the essential features of those points can help clear up confusion. Something like a practical unity of Participatory Democracy (as defined above), Direct Action, and Mutual aid can lead to a lot of coherence and functional use for groups starting from scratch or otherwise developing such points of unity overtime.
https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/liberatory-points-of-unity-template-2023-remix/
#anarchism #anarchy #socialism #communism #communalism #socialmovements #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism #egalitarianism #horizontality #federalism #democracy #mutualaid #freeassociation #pointsofunity #pou #organizing #freedom #revolution #organization
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Points of Unity template for shared practices and processes (for social movement groups and popular organizations of various kinds): ***Although descriptively accurate, the above is not formulated to be the best name for practical use in movement context as it is too jargon heavy and wordy. Alternative names: Points of Unity, Group agreements, Shared Agreements, Group Practices, Shared Practices, Group Processes, Shared Processes, etc
Direct-Democracy: Direct democracy refers to direct collective decision making. Direct democracy enables collective dialogue, decisions, and actions to achieve various goals and solve various problems. Deliberation is foundational to a practical direct democracy as it enables questions, amendments, conversations, problems, solution criteria, multiple perspectives, critiques, concerns, alternative possibilities, dissent, and evaluation of pros and cons to round out proposals and decisions made. After deliberation, there is an aim for full agreement. If there is not full agreement, there is further discussion and then a decision is made by majority vote. ***The specifics of direct democracy can be tweaked and even left out of this section and simply included in the bylaws.
Horizontality: Horizontality refers to the presence of self-organization and the absence of hierarchy. Hierarchy refers to institutionalized top-down command obedience relations. Horizontality includes horizontal rights such as freedom from hierarchy, freedom from oppression, freedom from domination, freedom from exploitation, and freedom to participate in self-managed groups and relations. This group strives to be internally horizontal and contribute to horizontal relations. etc. ***can alternatively be called or framed as: non-hierarchy, or egalitarian relations, or opposition to hierarchy. With different groups, different framings and wordings will make more sense. Depending on group and context, it may or may not make sense for a group to give a list of various hierarchies in such a points of unity document.
Free Association and Participatory activity: Free association refers to freedom of and from associations and participatory activity within associations. For there to be free association and participatory activity, persons and groups must have the guaranteed freedoms to choose their activities and associations while respecting and enabling freedoms of others to do the same. All labor, work, and action within this group is to be voluntary and non-coerced. If someone does not like a policy that is made, they can continue to argue for and advocate an alternative proposal, continue to argue one’s point formally and informally, choose to not participate in the implementation of the policy they disagree with while remaining in the group, or choose to leave the association. *** This point can potentially be included in other points of unity without being its own point. Also, it is often implied that a group is such a voluntary association so including this for a group as an explicit point may or may not make sense.
Direct Action: Direct action refers to opposing exploitation, domination and oppression through self-managed action to achieve various goals. Direct action can be contrasted to indirect action of top-down organizing and relying on rulers to solve social problems. Direct action includes a wide array of potential activities and campaigns against specific hierarchical institutions for short term, mid-term, and long-term goals. *** A description giving examples of direct action tactics such as occupations, blockades, strikes, boycotts, etc. is optional. An alternative to the wording to “domination, exploitation, and oppression” can be “unfreedom and injustice” or something sufficiently similar.
Mutual Aid: Mutual aid refers to voluntary multidirectional help to meet needs. Mutual aid can exist within a group, between groups, between groups and persons, between persons etc. Mutual aid enables groups and people to pool abilities, needs, ideas, proposals, actions, infrastructure, resources, tools, etc. together. Mutual aid can include a wide array of potential activities from mutual assistance towards common goals, creating or participating in development of the commons (including communal fields, factories and workshops, social centers, libraries, eco-technology projects, etc), free food distribution, communal childcare, etc. ***Such a list or variation thereof is optional to include.
For groups that collaborate with other groups in various formal and informal ways:
Co-Federalism: Co-federalism refers to ways organizations can freely collaborate for inter-collective coordination, decisions, and actions in a way that enables decision making power to be in the hands of people directly. Delegated persons and councils of collectives can meet up for deliberation and administration. Such delegates and co-federal councils are mandated and recallable to their respective popular assemblies, are merely communicative, administrative, and have no policy making power. All policies are made and ratified by general assemblies directly. ***Alternatively the words federalism, confederalism, intercommunalism, inter-collectivity, egalitarian federation, etc. can be used in place of co-federalism. Co-federalism is a neologism, and confederalism and federalism both have connotative issues despite them referring to an essential practice for horizontal and free inter-organizational relations.
Addendum point for Community assembly groups in particular:
Communal Self Management: Communal self-management refers to horizontal, democratic, participatory community politics and economics. Such communal and intercommunal self-management can exist on every scale from the block, to the neighborhood, to the city, and beyond. Means of existence and production needed by communities are to be held and managed in common. Policies and protocols for communal economics are managed by communal assemblies and co-federations thereof. Such communal assemblies and co-federations thereof have embedded participatory councils that self-manage implementation within the bounds of their respective mandates and protocols. Such a communal economy aims towards providing each and all with free access to needs.
***The above point is specifically for community assembly groups. It generally makes the most sense for groups that are at relatively a mature level development to the point where they have sufficient power, means of production, and popular support.
Alternative framing that synthesizes the first three points of unity into a single point:
Participatory Democracy: Participatory democracy refers to a combination of direct collective decision making, without rulers, where people freely participate in decision making and implementation of decisions. ***By condensing the substance of the first three points into a single point, a lot of clutter disappears. From here, people can fill out this point through their own descriptions or through copying, pasting, and blending some of the more essential sentences from the first three points of unity listed as needed. An alternative framing for this point could be “self-management” in such a way that includes the substance of direct democracy, horizontality, and free association. As coherent as the first three points are as separate points rounding each other out, they are rather cumbersome and can be difficult to wrap one’s mind around. Creating a single point that combines the essential features of those points can help clear up confusion. Something like a practical unity of Participatory Democracy (as defined above), Direct Action, and Mutual aid can lead to a lot of coherence and functional use for groups starting from scratch or otherwise developing such points of unity overtime.
https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/liberatory-points-of-unity-template-2023-remix/
#anarchism #anarchy #socialism #communism #communalism #socialmovements #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism #egalitarianism #horizontality #federalism #democracy #mutualaid #freeassociation #pointsofunity #pou #organizing #freedom #revolution #organization
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Points of Unity template for shared practices and processes (for social movement groups and popular organizations of various kinds): ***Although descriptively accurate, the above is not formulated to be the best name for practical use in movement context as it is too jargon heavy and wordy. Alternative names: Points of Unity, Group agreements, Shared Agreements, Group Practices, Shared Practices, Group Processes, Shared Processes, etc
Direct-Democracy: Direct democracy refers to direct collective decision making. Direct democracy enables collective dialogue, decisions, and actions to achieve various goals and solve various problems. Deliberation is foundational to a practical direct democracy as it enables questions, amendments, conversations, problems, solution criteria, multiple perspectives, critiques, concerns, alternative possibilities, dissent, and evaluation of pros and cons to round out proposals and decisions made. After deliberation, there is an aim for full agreement. If there is not full agreement, there is further discussion and then a decision is made by majority vote. ***The specifics of direct democracy can be tweaked and even left out of this section and simply included in the bylaws.
Horizontality: Horizontality refers to the presence of self-organization and the absence of hierarchy. Hierarchy refers to institutionalized top-down command obedience relations. Horizontality includes horizontal rights such as freedom from hierarchy, freedom from oppression, freedom from domination, freedom from exploitation, and freedom to participate in self-managed groups and relations. This group strives to be internally horizontal and contribute to horizontal relations. etc. ***can alternatively be called or framed as: non-hierarchy, or egalitarian relations, or opposition to hierarchy. With different groups, different framings and wordings will make more sense. Depending on group and context, it may or may not make sense for a group to give a list of various hierarchies in such a points of unity document.
Free Association and Participatory activity: Free association refers to freedom of and from associations and participatory activity within associations. For there to be free association and participatory activity, persons and groups must have the guaranteed freedoms to choose their activities and associations while respecting and enabling freedoms of others to do the same. All labor, work, and action within this group is to be voluntary and non-coerced. If someone does not like a policy that is made, they can continue to argue for and advocate an alternative proposal, continue to argue one’s point formally and informally, choose to not participate in the implementation of the policy they disagree with while remaining in the group, or choose to leave the association. *** This point can potentially be included in other points of unity without being its own point. Also, it is often implied that a group is such a voluntary association so including this for a group as an explicit point may or may not make sense.
Direct Action: Direct action refers to opposing exploitation, domination and oppression through self-managed action to achieve various goals. Direct action can be contrasted to indirect action of top-down organizing and relying on rulers to solve social problems. Direct action includes a wide array of potential activities and campaigns against specific hierarchical institutions for short term, mid-term, and long-term goals. *** A description giving examples of direct action tactics such as occupations, blockades, strikes, boycotts, etc. is optional. An alternative to the wording to “domination, exploitation, and oppression” can be “unfreedom and injustice” or something sufficiently similar.
Mutual Aid: Mutual aid refers to voluntary multidirectional help to meet needs. Mutual aid can exist within a group, between groups, between groups and persons, between persons etc. Mutual aid enables groups and people to pool abilities, needs, ideas, proposals, actions, infrastructure, resources, tools, etc. together. Mutual aid can include a wide array of potential activities from mutual assistance towards common goals, creating or participating in development of the commons (including communal fields, factories and workshops, social centers, libraries, eco-technology projects, etc), free food distribution, communal childcare, etc. ***Such a list or variation thereof is optional to include.
For groups that collaborate with other groups in various formal and informal ways:
Co-Federalism: Co-federalism refers to ways organizations can freely collaborate for inter-collective coordination, decisions, and actions in a way that enables decision making power to be in the hands of people directly. Delegated persons and councils of collectives can meet up for deliberation and administration. Such delegates and co-federal councils are mandated and recallable to their respective popular assemblies, are merely communicative, administrative, and have no policy making power. All policies are made and ratified by general assemblies directly. ***Alternatively the words federalism, confederalism, intercommunalism, inter-collectivity, egalitarian federation, etc. can be used in place of co-federalism. Co-federalism is a neologism, and confederalism and federalism both have connotative issues despite them referring to an essential practice for horizontal and free inter-organizational relations.
Addendum point for Community assembly groups in particular:
Communal Self Management: Communal self-management refers to horizontal, democratic, participatory community politics and economics. Such communal and intercommunal self-management can exist on every scale from the block, to the neighborhood, to the city, and beyond. Means of existence and production needed by communities are to be held and managed in common. Policies and protocols for communal economics are managed by communal assemblies and co-federations thereof. Such communal assemblies and co-federations thereof have embedded participatory councils that self-manage implementation within the bounds of their respective mandates and protocols. Such a communal economy aims towards providing each and all with free access to needs.
***The above point is specifically for community assembly groups. It generally makes the most sense for groups that are at relatively a mature level development to the point where they have sufficient power, means of production, and popular support.
Alternative framing that synthesizes the first three points of unity into a single point:
Participatory Democracy: Participatory democracy refers to a combination of direct collective decision making, without rulers, where people freely participate in decision making and implementation of decisions. ***By condensing the substance of the first three points into a single point, a lot of clutter disappears. From here, people can fill out this point through their own descriptions or through copying, pasting, and blending some of the more essential sentences from the first three points of unity listed as needed. An alternative framing for this point could be “self-management” in such a way that includes the substance of direct democracy, horizontality, and free association. As coherent as the first three points are as separate points rounding each other out, they are rather cumbersome and can be difficult to wrap one’s mind around. Creating a single point that combines the essential features of those points can help clear up confusion. Something like a practical unity of Participatory Democracy (as defined above), Direct Action, and Mutual aid can lead to a lot of coherence and functional use for groups starting from scratch or otherwise developing such points of unity overtime.
https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/liberatory-points-of-unity-template-2023-remix/
#anarchism #anarchy #socialism #communism #communalism #socialmovements #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism #egalitarianism #horizontality #federalism #democracy #mutualaid #freeassociation #pointsofunity #pou #organizing #freedom #revolution #organization
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Points of Unity template for shared practices and processes (for social movement groups and popular organizations of various kinds): ***Although descriptively accurate, the above is not formulated to be the best name for practical use in movement context as it is too jargon heavy and wordy. Alternative names: Points of Unity, Group agreements, Shared Agreements, Group Practices, Shared Practices, Group Processes, Shared Processes, etc
Direct-Democracy: Direct democracy refers to direct collective decision making. Direct democracy enables collective dialogue, decisions, and actions to achieve various goals and solve various problems. Deliberation is foundational to a practical direct democracy as it enables questions, amendments, conversations, problems, solution criteria, multiple perspectives, critiques, concerns, alternative possibilities, dissent, and evaluation of pros and cons to round out proposals and decisions made. After deliberation, there is an aim for full agreement. If there is not full agreement, there is further discussion and then a decision is made by majority vote. ***The specifics of direct democracy can be tweaked and even left out of this section and simply included in the bylaws.
Horizontality: Horizontality refers to the presence of self-organization and the absence of hierarchy. Hierarchy refers to institutionalized top-down command obedience relations. Horizontality includes horizontal rights such as freedom from hierarchy, freedom from oppression, freedom from domination, freedom from exploitation, and freedom to participate in self-managed groups and relations. This group strives to be internally horizontal and contribute to horizontal relations. etc. ***can alternatively be called or framed as: non-hierarchy, or egalitarian relations, or opposition to hierarchy. With different groups, different framings and wordings will make more sense. Depending on group and context, it may or may not make sense for a group to give a list of various hierarchies in such a points of unity document.
Free Association and Participatory activity: Free association refers to freedom of and from associations and participatory activity within associations. For there to be free association and participatory activity, persons and groups must have the guaranteed freedoms to choose their activities and associations while respecting and enabling freedoms of others to do the same. All labor, work, and action within this group is to be voluntary and non-coerced. If someone does not like a policy that is made, they can continue to argue for and advocate an alternative proposal, continue to argue one’s point formally and informally, choose to not participate in the implementation of the policy they disagree with while remaining in the group, or choose to leave the association. *** This point can potentially be included in other points of unity without being its own point. Also, it is often implied that a group is such a voluntary association so including this for a group as an explicit point may or may not make sense.
Direct Action: Direct action refers to opposing exploitation, domination and oppression through self-managed action to achieve various goals. Direct action can be contrasted to indirect action of top-down organizing and relying on rulers to solve social problems. Direct action includes a wide array of potential activities and campaigns against specific hierarchical institutions for short term, mid-term, and long-term goals. *** A description giving examples of direct action tactics such as occupations, blockades, strikes, boycotts, etc. is optional. An alternative to the wording to “domination, exploitation, and oppression” can be “unfreedom and injustice” or something sufficiently similar.
Mutual Aid: Mutual aid refers to voluntary multidirectional help to meet needs. Mutual aid can exist within a group, between groups, between groups and persons, between persons etc. Mutual aid enables groups and people to pool abilities, needs, ideas, proposals, actions, infrastructure, resources, tools, etc. together. Mutual aid can include a wide array of potential activities from mutual assistance towards common goals, creating or participating in development of the commons (including communal fields, factories and workshops, social centers, libraries, eco-technology projects, etc), free food distribution, communal childcare, etc. ***Such a list or variation thereof is optional to include.
For groups that collaborate with other groups in various formal and informal ways:
Co-Federalism: Co-federalism refers to ways organizations can freely collaborate for inter-collective coordination, decisions, and actions in a way that enables decision making power to be in the hands of people directly. Delegated persons and councils of collectives can meet up for deliberation and administration. Such delegates and co-federal councils are mandated and recallable to their respective popular assemblies, are merely communicative, administrative, and have no policy making power. All policies are made and ratified by general assemblies directly. ***Alternatively the words federalism, confederalism, intercommunalism, inter-collectivity, egalitarian federation, etc. can be used in place of co-federalism. Co-federalism is a neologism, and confederalism and federalism both have connotative issues despite them referring to an essential practice for horizontal and free inter-organizational relations.
Addendum point for Community assembly groups in particular:
Communal Self Management: Communal self-management refers to horizontal, democratic, participatory community politics and economics. Such communal and intercommunal self-management can exist on every scale from the block, to the neighborhood, to the city, and beyond. Means of existence and production needed by communities are to be held and managed in common. Policies and protocols for communal economics are managed by communal assemblies and co-federations thereof. Such communal assemblies and co-federations thereof have embedded participatory councils that self-manage implementation within the bounds of their respective mandates and protocols. Such a communal economy aims towards providing each and all with free access to needs.
***The above point is specifically for community assembly groups. It generally makes the most sense for groups that are at relatively a mature level development to the point where they have sufficient power, means of production, and popular support.
Alternative framing that synthesizes the first three points of unity into a single point:
Participatory Democracy: Participatory democracy refers to a combination of direct collective decision making, without rulers, where people freely participate in decision making and implementation of decisions. ***By condensing the substance of the first three points into a single point, a lot of clutter disappears. From here, people can fill out this point through their own descriptions or through copying, pasting, and blending some of the more essential sentences from the first three points of unity listed as needed. An alternative framing for this point could be “self-management” in such a way that includes the substance of direct democracy, horizontality, and free association. As coherent as the first three points are as separate points rounding each other out, they are rather cumbersome and can be difficult to wrap one’s mind around. Creating a single point that combines the essential features of those points can help clear up confusion. Something like a practical unity of Participatory Democracy (as defined above), Direct Action, and Mutual aid can lead to a lot of coherence and functional use for groups starting from scratch or otherwise developing such points of unity overtime.
https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/liberatory-points-of-unity-template-2023-remix/
#anarchism #anarchy #socialism #communism #communalism #socialmovements #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism #egalitarianism #horizontality #federalism #democracy #mutualaid #freeassociation #pointsofunity #pou #organizing #freedom #revolution #organization
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Points of Unity template for shared practices and processes (for social movement groups and popular organizations of various kinds): ***Although descriptively accurate, the above is not formulated to be the best name for practical use in movement context as it is too jargon heavy and wordy. Alternative names: Points of Unity, Group agreements, Shared Agreements, Group Practices, Shared Practices, Group Processes, Shared Processes, etc
Direct-Democracy: Direct democracy refers to direct collective decision making. Direct democracy enables collective dialogue, decisions, and actions to achieve various goals and solve various problems. Deliberation is foundational to a practical direct democracy as it enables questions, amendments, conversations, problems, solution criteria, multiple perspectives, critiques, concerns, alternative possibilities, dissent, and evaluation of pros and cons to round out proposals and decisions made. After deliberation, there is an aim for full agreement. If there is not full agreement, there is further discussion and then a decision is made by majority vote. ***The specifics of direct democracy can be tweaked and even left out of this section and simply included in the bylaws.
Horizontality: Horizontality refers to the presence of self-organization and the absence of hierarchy. Hierarchy refers to institutionalized top-down command obedience relations. Horizontality includes horizontal rights such as freedom from hierarchy, freedom from oppression, freedom from domination, freedom from exploitation, and freedom to participate in self-managed groups and relations. This group strives to be internally horizontal and contribute to horizontal relations. etc. ***can alternatively be called or framed as: non-hierarchy, or egalitarian relations, or opposition to hierarchy. With different groups, different framings and wordings will make more sense. Depending on group and context, it may or may not make sense for a group to give a list of various hierarchies in such a points of unity document.
Free Association and Participatory activity: Free association refers to freedom of and from associations and participatory activity within associations. For there to be free association and participatory activity, persons and groups must have the guaranteed freedoms to choose their activities and associations while respecting and enabling freedoms of others to do the same. All labor, work, and action within this group is to be voluntary and non-coerced. If someone does not like a policy that is made, they can continue to argue for and advocate an alternative proposal, continue to argue one’s point formally and informally, choose to not participate in the implementation of the policy they disagree with while remaining in the group, or choose to leave the association. *** This point can potentially be included in other points of unity without being its own point. Also, it is often implied that a group is such a voluntary association so including this for a group as an explicit point may or may not make sense.
Direct Action: Direct action refers to opposing exploitation, domination and oppression through self-managed action to achieve various goals. Direct action can be contrasted to indirect action of top-down organizing and relying on rulers to solve social problems. Direct action includes a wide array of potential activities and campaigns against specific hierarchical institutions for short term, mid-term, and long-term goals. *** A description giving examples of direct action tactics such as occupations, blockades, strikes, boycotts, etc. is optional. An alternative to the wording to “domination, exploitation, and oppression” can be “unfreedom and injustice” or something sufficiently similar.
Mutual Aid: Mutual aid refers to voluntary multidirectional help to meet needs. Mutual aid can exist within a group, between groups, between groups and persons, between persons etc. Mutual aid enables groups and people to pool abilities, needs, ideas, proposals, actions, infrastructure, resources, tools, etc. together. Mutual aid can include a wide array of potential activities from mutual assistance towards common goals, creating or participating in development of the commons (including communal fields, factories and workshops, social centers, libraries, eco-technology projects, etc), free food distribution, communal childcare, etc. ***Such a list or variation thereof is optional to include.
For groups that collaborate with other groups in various formal and informal ways:
Co-Federalism: Co-federalism refers to ways organizations can freely collaborate for inter-collective coordination, decisions, and actions in a way that enables decision making power to be in the hands of people directly. Delegated persons and councils of collectives can meet up for deliberation and administration. Such delegates and co-federal councils are mandated and recallable to their respective popular assemblies, are merely communicative, administrative, and have no policy making power. All policies are made and ratified by general assemblies directly. ***Alternatively the words federalism, confederalism, intercommunalism, inter-collectivity, egalitarian federation, etc. can be used in place of co-federalism. Co-federalism is a neologism, and confederalism and federalism both have connotative issues despite them referring to an essential practice for horizontal and free inter-organizational relations.
Addendum point for Community assembly groups in particular:
Communal Self Management: Communal self-management refers to horizontal, democratic, participatory community politics and economics. Such communal and intercommunal self-management can exist on every scale from the block, to the neighborhood, to the city, and beyond. Means of existence and production needed by communities are to be held and managed in common. Policies and protocols for communal economics are managed by communal assemblies and co-federations thereof. Such communal assemblies and co-federations thereof have embedded participatory councils that self-manage implementation within the bounds of their respective mandates and protocols. Such a communal economy aims towards providing each and all with free access to needs.
***The above point is specifically for community assembly groups. It generally makes the most sense for groups that are at relatively a mature level development to the point where they have sufficient power, means of production, and popular support.
Alternative framing that synthesizes the first three points of unity into a single point:
Participatory Democracy: Participatory democracy refers to a combination of direct collective decision making, without rulers, where people freely participate in decision making and implementation of decisions. ***By condensing the substance of the first three points into a single point, a lot of clutter disappears. From here, people can fill out this point through their own descriptions or through copying, pasting, and blending some of the more essential sentences from the first three points of unity listed as needed. An alternative framing for this point could be “self-management” in such a way that includes the substance of direct democracy, horizontality, and free association. As coherent as the first three points are as separate points rounding each other out, they are rather cumbersome and can be difficult to wrap one’s mind around. Creating a single point that combines the essential features of those points can help clear up confusion. Something like a practical unity of Participatory Democracy (as defined above), Direct Action, and Mutual aid can lead to a lot of coherence and functional use for groups starting from scratch or otherwise developing such points of unity overtime.
https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2023/01/14/liberatory-points-of-unity-template-2023-remix/
#anarchism #anarchy #socialism #communism #communalism #socialmovements #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism #egalitarianism #horizontality #federalism #democracy #mutualaid #freeassociation #pointsofunity #pou #organizing #freedom #revolution #organization
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📍: Lock 16, Keepers Lock
ℹ️: lock
🗺: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.7254547519476&mlon=-1.7878774860394#map=17/52.7254547519476/-1.7878774860394
📸: Photo by shaggy359 on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/12495774@N02/6225923968#canal #river #narrowboat #barge #gongoozler #england #uk #flickr #blue #red #abstract #water #freeassociation #lines #ripple #line #undulation #blob #abstraction #staffordshire #blobs #trentandmerseycanal #trentandmersey #staffs #fradley #fradleyjunction #undulate #trentmerseycanal #trentmersey
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📍: Lock 16, Keepers Lock
ℹ️: lock
🗺: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=52.7254547519476&mlon=-1.7878774860394#map=17/52.7254547519476/-1.7878774860394
📸: Photo by shaggy359 on Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/12495774@N02/6225923968#canal #river #narrowboat #barge #gongoozler #england #uk #flickr #blue #red #abstract #water #freeassociation #lines #ripple #line #undulation #blob #abstraction #staffordshire #blobs #trentandmerseycanal #trentandmersey #staffs #fradley #fradleyjunction #undulate #trentmerseycanal #trentmersey
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Quick shout-out for one of the nicest, most thoughtful papers I've read in a long time:
Narrative thinking lingers in spontaneous thought
'Some experiences linger in mind, spontaneously returning to our thoughts for minutes after their conclusion...our thoughts in the present moment echo prior experiences that have been incorporated into deeper, narrative forms of thinking'
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-32113-6
#narrative #thinking #story #linger #transportation #introspection #freeassociation #subjective
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#hungarian #wordchain #freeassociation #ideasthesia #lexeme
I'll start:
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